http://www.daisyrust.com digital art hacks - creative code - exhibition Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:46:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have a piece of 'net.art' called 'Texturisr' in an exhibition at Watermans. London, between 17th March – 1st April 2007. I'll post some further details of the work here soon. But for now: I completed 'Texturisr' in 2005 as a nod to the then booming obsession with 'Web 2.0' and took ... http://www.daisyrust.com/2007/02/14/exhibition-of-texturisr-at-sense-detectives/ Download: http://www.daisyrust.com/quartzcomposer/reflections_fxplug_V2.qtz.zip A second version of my 'tiger reflections patch'. Now with a simpler interface and Noise Industries 'FXFactory' ready! The patch is simplifed and slightly more reliable than the previous version. The generated image can now rotate without producing artifacts. The gradient setup is now automated. Less control but simpler. ... http://www.daisyrust.com/2007/02/13/quartz-composer-tiger-reflections-patch-version-2/ Download: aqua_style_circle_mask_001.zip The patch does a simple thing of producing an 'aquafied' circle. I created this patch when I was exploring masks and how best to create a circle using the current Quartz Composer toolset. The patch contains some useful techniques working between pixels and Quartz Composer units. It is also ... http://www.daisyrust.com/2007/02/13/quartz-composer-aqua-style-circle-mask/ I've composed a patch that creates an iris transition. You can position it in x - y space, control the iris size and feather the edge of the mask. Download Link: iris_quartz_composer.zip Some Notes The patch is quite simple to use. For a recent digital puppetry project, I connected the iris radius to ... http://www.daisyrust.com/2007/02/13/quartz-composer-iris-transition/ I have recently completed the first prototype of a major digital puppetry project that relies heavily on Quartz Composer in an arena of live performance familiar to vj-ers, visual artists and visualists. I have a set of predefined visuals ('scenes') and effects and a complex mechanism that lets me composite ... http://www.daisyrust.com/2007/02/12/digital-puppetry-project-using-quartz-composer/ Here's a tool I have made that I use to create an instant sheet of thumbnails from a movie. I use it to analyze animations that I have digitised from my own video collection. Download Link: movie_thumbnail_viewer_001.qtz.zip It works in principle but there are a number of issues I'll go into in ... http://www.daisyrust.com/2007/02/12/quartz-composer-movie-thumbnail-viewer/ Download Application: qcwii_v0.1.zip Download Source Code: qcwii_v0.1_src.zip QCWii is an application that lets a user connect a Nintendo Wii Remote to the mac and control a simple teapot. It is a proof of concept for a digital puppet controller. The final project controls a face - where the mouth is real-time video ... http://www.daisyrust.com/2007/02/12/quartz-composer-some-projects/ First draft: Here we go! I did this once then failed to remember how I did it - and I'm not surprised - because the functionality to attach a speech command to an application specific key-press can only be accessed by SPEAKING the command "Define a Keyboard Command" - highlighted below ... http://www.daisyrust.com/2006/10/11/controlling-quartz-composer-with-speech-commands/ Here's a screenshot of a demo patch that tiles an image (still or video) onto a user selected number of tiles. The rows/columns tiles can be fixed or animated. Three test patches are available for download. Download link: quartz composer video matrix test files 001 - 003 Notes: These are patches in ... http://www.daisyrust.com/2006/08/10/quartz-composer-video-matrix/ This walkthrough assumes you have access to a server running PHP and the ability to change permissions on directories. Step One: Get MagpieRSS here! Head to sourceforge and grab the latest copy of the excellent MagpieRSS. Step Two: Read the docs. Quickstart: setup a directory on the webserver that looks a bit ... http://www.daisyrust.com/2006/03/25/using-magpie-rss-to-scrape-blog-headlines-to-html/